Joy in June. Upgrades in June. Nourishment in June. Excellence in June.

I’m still not over this beautiful moment of sisterhood and sportsmanship! You can just feel the love shining through these ladies. Congrats Rebeca, Jordan and Simone! ✨

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Many of you have already started planning for the new school year. Are you building in intellectual prep time? Don't miss these suggestions for how to do it: bit.ly/48HVcpo

“Many students struggle at the secondary level with decoding, typically multisyllabic words, so those longer words that they’re encountering in science text or in social studies text. We also have a lot of our kids that can decode these words at decent levels and with fluency but

Yup! It is almost like high levels of reading failure are expected and built into the system. Here is the thing it does not have to be this way. There is scientific proponderance of evidence to guide us as long as we want to let do so.

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💫 Here's to reaching for the stars with your staff this year. 💫 (Photo by P Christine Johnson (aka Dr. J ), board created by leader Shamonda Garner)

8 signs of a high-performing team:

I LOVE this because the goal should always be to move kids to proficiency not just through the grade.

“As fiercely as Douglass fought for abolition and the right to literacy two centuries ago, we must now push education leaders at every level to adopt policies and practices  to ensure that every child learns to read and has access to diverse texts.”

"leading with 💜" Alesia Smith

Who shows up to our classroom is in our control. We can plan to teach, or We can design for learning. Those choices before the kids ever get here will lead to who walks in the door. If we want learners, we have to design & prepare for learners.

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The 5Cs of Effective #Leadership “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are an effective leader.”

“How do we begin to create an ecosystem in 6-12 for reading instruction like we have in K-2…. even as practice begins to shift, there are many older students who won’t benefit from policy changes mostly targeted at grades K-5.” “Let’s just be honest. We are still sending

WWHS Theater Department presents their fall play "A Murder is Announced" by Agatha Christie November 14-16, at 8 p.m. at the David Bell Performing Arts Center located on the North Campus. Tickets can be purchased at wintonwoodshighschoolboxoffice.org and $12 at the door (cash accepted). 📷